Thomas Jefferson Quotes about Constitution

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It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Thomas Jefferson

Notable, Constitution, Obligation

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

Principles, Constitution, Form

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Constitution

Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.474, Cosimo, Inc.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

Thomas Jefferson

Constitution, Chains, Mischief

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

Thomas Jefferson

Country, United States, Constitution

Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Important, Constitution

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Thomas Jefferson

Enlargement, Notable, Constitution

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.3